IEEE Project Abstract

The globalized production and distribution of agricultural produce bring a renewed focuson the safety, quality and validation of several important criteria in agriculture and food supply chains.The growing number of issues related to food safety and contamination risks has established an immenseneed for effective traceability solution that act as an essential quality management tool ensuring adequatesafety of products in the agricultural supply chain. Blockchain is a disruptive technology that can providean innovative solution for product traceability in agriculture and food supply chains. Today’s agriculturalsupply chains are complex ecosystem involving several stakeholders making it cumbersome to validateseveral important criteria such as country of origin, stages in crop development, conformance to qualitystandards and monitor yields. In this paper, we propose an approach that leverages the Ethereum blockchainand smart contracts efficiently perform business transactions for soybean tracking and traceability acrossthe agricultural supply chain. Our proposed solution eliminates the need for a trusted centralized authority,intermediaries and provides transactions records, enhancing efficiency and safety with high integrity,reliability, and security. The proposed solution focuses on the utilization of smart contracts to governand control all interactions and transactions among all the participants involved within the supply chainecosystem. All transactions are recorded and stored in the blockchain’s immutable ledger with links to adecentralized file system (IPFS), and thus providing to all a high level of transparency and traceability intothe supply chain ecosystem in a secure, trusted, reliable, and efficient manner.